Syntactic Cues Help Disambiguate Objects Referred to with Count Nouns: Illustration with Malay Children

Autor/inn/en	Sia, Ming Yean; Mayor, Julien
Titel	Syntactic Cues Help Disambiguate Objects Referred to with Count Nouns: Illustration with Malay Children
Quelle	In: Child Development, 92 (2021) 1, S.101-114 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sia, Ming Yean) ORCID (Mayor, Julien)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13401
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Syntax; Cues; Vocabulary Development; Form Classes (Languages); Nouns; Lexicology; Children; Sentences; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Stichwort; Wortschatzarbeit; Analytischer Sprachbau; Lexikologie; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse
Abstract	Children employ multiple cues to identify the referent of a novel word. Novel words are often embedded in sentences and children have been shown to use syntactic cues to differentiate between types of words (adjective vs. nouns) and between types of nouns (count vs. mass nouns). In this study, we show that children learning Malay (N = 67), a numeral classifier language, can use syntactic cues to perform even finer-grained disambiguation--between count nouns. The manipulation of congruence between lexical and syntactic cues reveals a clear developmental trajectory: while 5-year-olds use predominantly lexical cues, older children increasingly rely on syntactic cues, such that by 7 years of age, they disambiguate between objects referred to with count nouns using syntactic rather than lexical cues. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01